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- Jean Pitre appeared in only the 1671, 1678 and 1686 censuses at Port Royal, Acadia. He is reported as being 35 in the first census which would put his birth at around 1636. His wife was Marie Pesseley, born c1645, the youngest child of Isaac Pesseley and Barbe Bajolet, both French. Going by Marie’s age and the ages of the children in the 1671 census, she and Jean were probably married at Port Royal c1665.
Marie's parents had arrived in Acadia around 30 years earlier, but her mother returned to France after her father was killed on 16 April 1645 in the attack on Fort St. Jean. It is unknown if Marie was born in Acadia or if she was born after her mother had returned to France, but her grandson Claude Marc Pitre's declaration at Belle-Ile-en-Mer claimed Paris as her birthplace. After being widowed twice more, Barbe Bajolet, and certainly her two youngest children Marie Pesseley and Marie Anne Lefebvre, returned to Port Royal in 1661.
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(Âgé de 71 ans) 